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Due to the Archives Centre's continuing cataloguing programme, we are making more material available to researchers all the time. Additions continue to be made to our miscellaneous papers (MISC) and to the Additional Churchill Papers (WCHL). Papers which have been closed are also opened regularly, mainly in January each year.

In 2003 the Archives Centre began a programme to provide online information on all our collections. By May 2004 we had information available for 50 per cent of these. By February 2005 this number was up to 70 per cent and we finally achieved our goal of 100 per cent by February 2006. These online finding aids are available on the Janus webserver which provides access to catalogues of archives and manuscripts held in Cambridge.

The following list of newly-available papers, which will continue to be updated as more papers are opened up, only includes openings or new cataloguing of significant amounts of material: for the full list of our collections, see our Full Guide.

• PJAY: Papers of the economist and journalist Peter Jay, catalogued in 2012 (154 boxes).
  
  
• RDCH: Additional papers of Randolph Churchill, including personal and family correspondence and photographs, catalogued in 2012 (15 boxes).
  
  
• BRDW: Additional papers of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill and Winston Churchill, including photographs, correspondence, and plays by Lady Randolph, catalogued in 2012 (20 boxes).
  
  
• WCHL: Boer War despatch for the Morning Post by Winston Churchill on the Battle of Spion Kop, 1900, catalogued in 2012 (1 file).
  
  
• BRTS: Papers of the biologist Dr Mark Bretscher, including his early work on the genetic code and protein biosythesis, then moving into his work on cell membranes and cell movement, catalogued in 2012 (11 boxes).
  
  
• SEAG: Papers of Anne Seagrim, secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1950-54, including papers on her relationship with C P Snow, 1944-99, catalogued in 2011-12 (14.5 boxes).
  
  
• CCLK: Personal and political papers of the Ulster Unionist politician Sir Robin Chichester-Clark, catalogued in 2010-11 (37 boxes).
  
  
• RDWD: Early political papers of the politician John Redwood, catalogued in 2011 (3 boxes).
  
  
• CHURCHILL: Papers of Sir Winston Churchill, opened in October 2011 (c 300 pages). More information is available here.
  
  
• BORN: Papers of the physicist Max Born, catalogued in 2010-11 (84 boxes).
  
  
• LUNG: Papers of the interpreter Hugh Lunghi, particularly from the "Big Three" wartime conferences, catalogued in September 2011 (4 boxes).
  
  
• PIRI: Papers of the anthropologist George Pitt-Rivers, partly opened in May 2011 (50 boxes).
  
  
• PCHL: Additional papers of Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill, including family photographs, business and legal papers and visitors books kept by Lady Randolph Churchill, catalogued in April 2011 (5 boxes).
  
  
• THCR: Personal and political papers of Margaret Thatcher for 1980, opened in March 2011 (c 30,000 pages).